Draper v. Healey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · No. 15-1429P · 827 F.3d 1
👎Unfavorable to gun rights
upheld the Massachusetts handgun load-indicator requirement and dismissed the challengers' claims
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What the court held
A Massachusetts regulation makes it an unfair or deceptive practice to sell a handgun lacking a load indicator or magazine safety disconnect, and the Attorney General advised dealers that certain Glock pistols lacked an adequate load indicator. Dealers, consumers, and advocacy groups sued, claiming the "plainly indicates" standard was unconstitutionally vague and that the requirement violated the Second Amendment. The First Circuit affirmed dismissal, holding the phrase gave persons of ordinary intelligence fair notice, that the Second Amendment Foundation lacked associational standing because it identified no injured member, and that the consumers' Second Amendment claim, stipulated to be derivative of the vagueness claim, fell with it.
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What this case is about
Massachusetts handgun safety-device regulations governing handgun sales
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Key Dates
- 2016-06-17 — Decided
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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